Facebook’s lead EU privacy supervisor hit with corruption complaint

The Irish DPC seems truly out of line. Highlights:

> noyb is making the complaint under Austrian law — reporting the Irish regulator to the Austrian Office for the Prosecution of Corruption after the DPC sought to use what noyb terms “procedural blackmail” to try to gag it and prevent it from publishing documents related to GDPR complaints against Facebook.

> The regulator has also demanded noyb remove documents it has previously made public — related to the DPC’s draft decision of a GDPR complaint against Facebook — again without clarifying what legal basis it has to make such a demand.

Or just business as usual?

> noyb has previously accused the DPC of holding secret meetings with Facebook around the time it came up with the claimed consent bypass and just as the GDPR was about come into application — implying the regulator was seeking to support Facebook in finding a workaround for EU law.

> The not-for-profit also warned last month that if Facebook’s relabelling “trick” (i.e., switching a claim of “consent” to a claim of “contract”) were to be accepted by EU regulators it would undermine the whole of the GDPR — making the much lauded data protection regime trivially easy for data-mining giants to bypass.

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